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Well, That F*cked Me Up! Surviving Life Changing Events.

Luke Colson and Kyle Wise

BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down, by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime.. and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet

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33:41

S4 EP41: Gretchen's Story - 15 Minutes From The End

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2024/10/17

Send us a textGretchen Schoser, also known as G-Rex, is the co-host of the podcast "Sh!t That Goes On In Our Heads." On Christmas Day, 2022, she experienced a massive mental health breakdown that changed her life. Feeling utterly alone and terrified, she reached out for help by calling 988. That call saved her life and marked the beginning of her journey toward recovery.In the aftermath, she decided to share her battle on social media. She didn't want anyone to feel as isolated as she did dur...

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S4 EP40: Saloni's Story - Workplace Bullying And A...

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2024/10/10

Send us a textThis week, Saloni Surah has a terrifying story to share with us. She is a doctor specializing in HIV and sexual health, with a PhD on HIV and drug use. Saloni had a very bad workplace bullying experience, which has left her with undiagnosed PTSD. On top of that, someone wrote anonynmous letters saying some very damaging things, and sent them to people in her close circle! The repurcussions were awful, she was scared, lost confidence, and began to isolate. Eventuallyt, she moved ...

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S4 EP39: Marcy's Story - Born With Cleft Lip And...

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2024/10/03

Send us a textMarcy Langlois was born with a cleft lip and palate, her childhood was marked by an excruciating series of surgical procedures, 23 in all, before the age of 18. Because she looked and talked differently than the other kids, she was relentlessly teased and bullied. Her journey into adulthood was marked by challenging, traumatic, and downright tragic waypoints: Coming out as a queer woman, involvement in a multiple-fatality car accident, and a devastating descent into addiction an...

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S4 EP38: Gerard's Story - Botched Surgery Left Me...

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2024/09/26

Send us a textGerard Grogans has a very powerful message to share, and one we should all listen to in this really fascinating episode! A passing comment from his mother when he was young, about how he 'looked tired' completely changed the course of Gerard's life! The comment had a deeper meaning to Gerard and he would spend his life saving up for eye surgery to 'fix' the dark circles around his eyes. Of course his Mother had meant nothing from the comment, but it became all Gerard could think...

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57:57

S4 EP37: Alyssa's Story - Escaping 19 Years Of Abuse

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2024/09/19

Send us a textOne day in her car, Alyssa Decker was scanning the radio stations for something to listen to. She came across a woman who was telling the story of her marriage, and she was immediately captivated. The woman on the radio was describing Alyssa's marriage, almost exactly. For some reason, it had not occurred to her that there might be other marriages like hers. As the woman was talking, Alyssa was driving down the road with tears streaming down her face. She...

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S4 EP36: Lisa's Story - My Thyroid Was Removed Due To...

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2024/09/12

Send us a textLisa Wilson is a leadership coach, HR consultant and mediator. She works with small to medium sized companies to help them get the best from their teams. In 2014 she was laid off from my job. It was a blessing, because she knew she would start her business after that job ended. That is until she discovered a large lump on her thyroid that the doctors thought was growing way faster than it should. After a lot of deliberation, She had it removed and discovered soon after that the ...

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S4 EP35: Alana's Story - Near Death, Chronic Illness,...

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2024/09/05

Send us a textAlana Joy has spent over 20 years working as a nurse and psychotherapist. When she was a young girl, she had a near death experience after a tonsil removal operation that went wrong! Through her life and into adulthood, Alana always felt different, both physically and mentally, and it was a diagnosis of her son with a rare condition, that would also lead to her getting the same diagnosis! Her personal experience of chronic illness, death, and divorce catalyzed profound physical,...

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S4 EP34: Jeff's Story - Kidnapped! 43 Days To Freedom!

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2024/08/29

Send us a textJeff Frazier is a decorated US Army veteran with a passion for humanitarian work, that led him to Haiti, where he fought child trafficking, learned Haitian Creole, and relocated his family to Florida to serve Haiti’s most vulnerable communities.But that’s not all. During a large food distribution mission, Jeff was kidnapped by a Haitian gang and endured 43 torturous days in captivity. Instead of breaking him, this experience only fueled his determination to help Haitians escape ...

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S4 EP33: Bambi's Story - Redemption From A Life Time...

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2024/08/22

Send us a Text Message.Bambi Lynn joins us this week for a story of redemption against all the odds. Bambi endured some horrific abuse, from her mother and her father, her uncle, and various partners. It’s harrowing at times, and no one should have to go through what Bambi has been through. Although tough to hear, this is a story of triumph over trauma, a raw and gritty tale that plays out like a bleak and hard to watch movie. The ending however, is one of light, from the darkness. It t...

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S4 EP32: Sherry's Story - Who Will Take Care of Me Now?

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2024/08/15

Send us a Text Message.Sherry Buckley-Brown was 12 years old when her father came upstairs and said ‘i just killed your Mom’. After years of physical abuse, he had finally done the unthinkable. Sherry has written a book, about her struggle as a young girl, as she grappled with the profound loss, and how her life was torn apart, from friends, to school, to where she lived. Her siblings were separated and she describes it like ‘a bomb gong off’ in their lives. Sherry’s initial response was acti...

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S4 EP31: Teresa's Story - My Journey To Finding Real...

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2024/08/08

Send us a Text Message.There was something about turning 40 years old that made Teresa Greco reevaluate her life. Some people might call it a midlife crisis, but for Teresa, it was an opportunity to start asking some very important questions about her life. Realizing that half her life had been lived (hopefully anyway) and wondering if this was all there was. She began asking questions like, “Is this all there is to life?” “Where is my life going?” “Am I happy in the life I am liv...

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S4 EP30: Jocelyn's Story - I Lost Both My Parents 7...

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2024/08/01

Send us a Text Message.Jocelyn Bates is still processing what must be one of the traumatizing experiences we have ever heard on the show, and she says that she expects to continue to process what happened for the rest of her life.Her story of trauma is losing her parents 7 days apart unexpectedly in sept 2021 during Covid. Jocelyn lived with her parents at the time, as well as with her young children. Both her parents were taken ill, and both were taken away, separately, and such were Covid p...

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S4 EP29: Raja's Story - My Life With A Stutter...

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2024/07/25

Send us a Text Message.Raja Vaidya has struggled with a stutter all his life. In this extremely raw and honest episode, Raja discusses how his stutter affected his life! From his childhood, which included years of rejection and bullying, to his professional years, and how sheer determination led him to work hard and make a career for himself in scientific research! However, It was a major moment at work that Raja focuses on, an experience in which one of his trusted colleagues, would us his s...

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S4 EP28: Melissa's Story - The Day I Lost My Career

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2024/07/18

Send us a Text Message.Melissa Robinson-Winemiller was a professional musician, it was her life since childhood, her study, and eventually her dream job. it was all she ever knew, and it was at this dream job that her life would be flipped upside down in an instant, and set about a long and devastating spiral into the unknown. Melissa was assaulted one day at work, and the organization was less than willing to listen! Her story absolutely destroyed a 40-year career and left her devastated fin...

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S4 EP27: Lisa’s Story - How Do We Deal With Grief?

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2024/07/11

Send us a Text Message.Lisa Heacock lost 12 loved ones in a 22 month period, including her parents, and her 24 year old son-in-law. She ended a 28 year marriage, and was diagnosed with breats cancer and had a double mastectomy! After the losses, her life trajectory changed forever. Most of us have experieced grief in some way, and there really is no correct way to grieve. Some of us let it all out, some hold it in, for some its delayed, or even locked away, and this epsiode dives into the min...

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S4 EP26: Michelle's Story - Multiple Miscarriages And...

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2024/07/04

Send us a Text Message.Michelle Rae Woodward has had the most painful, extraordinary, and exhausting journey through multiple pregnancies. All of which ended in 2nd term pregnancy loss (birthed 3 boys and 2 girls, all deceased). She talks about how she was treated by the western medical paradigm, we discuss the grief she went through, her look into surrogacy in US and India, and then onto international adoption, and finally, how she is now raising a child with autism! Quite the amazing ...

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S4 EP25: Shay's Story - Orphaned at 13, After The...

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2024/06/27

Send us a Text Message.In this raw and often heartbreaking episode, we hear how Shay Leonia had to witness the slow demise of her mother who was diagnosed with dementia when Shay was only 9 years old, and her mother was in her Forties! There is still so much that is unknown about FTD, the specific disease in question, which is the deterioration of the brain's frontal lobe. Shay discusses the journey through watching her mother literally slip away, and eventually die, (when Shay was 13) which ...

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S4 EP24: Jacques' Story - The Night I Hit A Cyclist...

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2024/06/20

Send us a Text Message.WARNING: Graphic Content involving description of fatal road traffic accident.Jacques is a trauma survivor, after being involved in a horrific accident that totally changed the course of his life.The accident is quite graphic, you have been warned, and involved three individual traumas one after the other. In the dark of night, Jacques hit a man on a pedal bike going 120 km/h (75 mph) on a major highway at night with no one else around. He is trained in first aid so wal...

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S4 EP23: Alana's Story - My Toxic Boss Hell!

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2024/06/13

Send us a Text Message.30 BRAND NEW EPISODES STARTING NEXT WEEK!: Wow, this one is extraordinary. Thank you Alana for coming on and really just telling it how it is. This is for all of you listeners out there with any toxic work experiences, in fact maybe you are in one now and you don't know it? Alana tells us the story of how she became the victim of a Toxic Boss, what it dis to her Mental Health, and how she recovered. Alana's story is eye opening and hopefully offers hope and courage for ...

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S4 EP22: Gina's Story - Redemption From Unimaginable...

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2024/06/06

Send us a Text Message.Gina Fox is a childhood and adult trauma survivor. She was abused from age 5 to 16 by her own father, and its tough to listen to. She was then abused again by her ex-husband for 5 years. She had very bad coping skills as a result of these horrible experiences, and a mountain to climb! As her life continued into her thirties she realised she was running away from an extreme amount of ptsd! It was a cross roads, in her late thirties, that made her stop, and decide to chan...

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